Show ThEFT Of F CARS I IS I Three Million Dollars V orth II Taken In Southern I California I S A comprehensive e r report port of auto autol I thefts for the last year ear just Issued hy by bythe bythe the tho theft bureau of oC tho the Automobile Club ot of Southern California sho shows s year by car ear there are aro more moro ears cars being stolen I In Southern California during 1922 there thero were ero nearly worth I of oC automobiles taken by their gangs It I Is belles Lelle believed td od that this tremendous cc- cc nc I th tilty Ity Is conducted by professional groups group of or thieves organized on a corn com commercial mercial basteAn basis baste An Investigation In estl atlon of the facts lug Ing to the tho theft of ot each automobile i shows sho that In roost most Instances the car ear was stolen because the 0 owner ner failed to lock It or e een even en left the key In the lock Such Buch carelessness as this en- en encourage en encourages courage the stealing ot of machines say flay the tho authorities Although the greatest number of aC cars cors stolen have been bean recovered great difficulty hM has been experienced In getting them bac back because the tho owners could not give proper Information to the detectives In Identifying their property oven even fail fail- failIng fall falling ing to know their own license or en- en engIno en engine gine gIno numbers |